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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail in Perl
Message-ID: <1990Feb10.011817.17398@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 10 Feb 90 01:18:17 GMT
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In-Reply-To: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)

In article <25D2D161.124C@tct.uucp>, chip@tct (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
| The similarity of Randal's hypothetical ".deliver.pl" to my real
| ".deliver" can't be a cooincidence.  Deliver (currently at version
| 2.0; patch five will be out soon) executes scripts to control mail
| delivery.  User delivery scripts are named "$HOME/.deliver".

Yup.  I *wondered* why that sounded sooooo familiar!

| So, in a manner of speaking, Sendmail in Perl already exists.

You speak rather funny, then. :-)

$_ = "Just another sendmail hacker,"; s/sendmail/Perl/; print;
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